Rochelle Owens papers, 1900-2022

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Additions to the Papers, 2018-2022


2018:

Accession: 2018.2019.M018



Box 17 Folder 1 Notes; Workings; Drafts; Poems; Correspondence; Critics and Scholars, 2017-2018


Box 17 Folder 2 "Solarpoetics". Mss, 2017


Box 17 Folder 3 "How Much Paint Does The Painting Need". CD, 1992


Box 17 Folder 4 "Black Chalk". CD, 28 minutes, color, 1994


Box 17 Folder 5 "Oklahoma Too". CD, 1987


Box 17 Hermaphropoetics: Drifting Geometries , 2017


Box 17 TSQ, Volume 5 No. 1, February 2018


Box 17 Golden Handcuffs Review, No. 25


2019:



Box 18 Folder 1 Hermaphropoetics: Drifting Geometries , 2015-2016

(Published by Singing House Press, 2017)


Box 18 Folder 2 Elgh's Incantation , 1960

(sections published in Journals and Magazines and "New and Selected Poems, 1961-1996")


Box 18 Folder 3 Correspondence (some drawings included with email) , 2017-2019


Box 18 Folder 4 Lucs: Discourse On Life And Death Six poems


Box 18 Folder 5 "Discourse on Life and Death - began in 1988" Ms.


Box 18 Folder 6 Notebook of notes, ideas, poetic workings


Box 18 Folder 7 Poem Cards


Box 18 Folder 8 Land Art (2 postcards)


Box 18 Folder 9 Letter to chere femme (in French), 13 June 2019


Box 18 Folder 10 Letters to Rochelle Owens, 2019


Drawings:


Box 18 Folder 11 Drawing: "When I cancelled - I looked sad and frustrated"


Box 18 Folder 12 Drawing: "Crying Woman", bulk 14 May 2019


Box 18 Folder 13 Drawing" "The Feminisation of France?"


Box 18 Folder 14 Poetry Event Announcement (The Kelly Writers House, 17 October 2013)


Box 18 Folder 15 Calendar Sheet for May 2019 (heavily annotated)

(George Economou died on 3 May 2019)


Box 18 Folder 16 Miscellaneous: "Splendid Examples" by Rochelle Owens; "He Wants Shih!" program for play; Philadelphia Museum of Art. Bulletin for members (annotated by Rochelle Owens in May of 2019)


Box 18 Folder 17 Photographs


Printed:


Box 18 Golden Handcuffs Review. Numbers 25 and 26


Box 18 The Cafe Review. Volume 25, Summer 2014


2020:



Box 19 Folder 1 "Woman of Light" by George Economou. Signed watercolor , 1988


Box 19 Folder 2 "Self Portrait" by Rochelle Owens. Signed oil painting, 1973


Box 19 Folder 3 Rochelle Owens: "Everlasting Duration," in memory of George (From the magazine Ergon - Greek/American Arts and Letters, 28 October 2020



Box 20 Folder 1 "Patterns of Animus: A New Poem by Rochelle Owens" in Poems and Poetics , 2020


Box 20 Folder 2 Copies of new poems included in "The Aardvark Venus" and "Patterns of Animus", 2020


Box 20 Folder 3 Poetry reading events, notes, workings & correspondence, October 2019-2020


Box 20 Folder 4 Events, Correspondence, and Miscellaneous Items, January 2020 - January 2021


Box 20 Folder 5 Poems, Drafts, Notes, etc., 2019-2020


Box 20 Folder 6 Agreements, 1994-2005


Box 20 Folder 7 Royalty statements, 2005-2015



Box 21 "Rochelle Owens at home" Norman, OK 1984 (card, with photograph)


Box 21 Self portratits (2) of Rochelle Owens: "The Optimist and Tornado Lover: and "The Swimmer", 1983


Printed Material:


Box 21 The Aardvark Venus: New and Selected Poems 1961-2020 by Rochelle Owens. Texture Press: Norman, OK, 2020


Box 21 Golden Handcuffs Review. Volume 1, Number 8, Winter-Spring 2007


Box 21 Golden Handcuffs Review. Volume 1, Number 19, Fall-Winter 2014-15


Box 21 Golden Handcuffs Review. Volume II, Number 28


Box 21 Golden Handcuffs Review. Volume II, Number 29


Box 21 Great Writers Occupy. Golden Handcuffs Review , 2015


2022:


Patterns of Animus:



Box 24 Folder 1 Patterns of Animus by Rochelle Owens. Norman, OK: Texture Press, 2022, 151 pages

Inscribed by the author to The Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

The author's copy.

Gift of Rochelle Owens, August 2022



Box 23 Folder 1 Poem: "Patterns of Animus Part 4 Carnal/Spiritual" (published on-line)



Box 22 Folder 4 "Patterns of Animus" drafts, 2021-2022



Box 24 Folder 4 "Patterns of Animus" Print out, 64 pages


Box 24 Folder 5 "Patterns of Animus" Print out, annotated, 34 pages


Box 24 Folder 2 "Patterns of Animus" Latest Proof corrections, 27 June 2022, 2 pages


Box 24 Folder 3 "Patterns of Animus" Final version, June/July 2022, 30 pages


Correspondence:



Box 22 Folder 1 Correspondence with the RBML, 1998


Box 22 Folder 3 Correspondence, 2021-April 2022



Box 24 Folder 6 Three emails (from Robert Heide, Susan, Margaret Harrington Tamulonis), May 2022



Box 22 Folder 2 Essays, Reviews, Scholarly Research on Rochelle Owens, 1970s-1984


Box 22 Folder 5 Poem drafts, etc.; notes on "Solar Poetics"; Lyrics: The Karl Marx Play (Steno Book), 2012


Box 22 Folder 6 R. Owens Wikipedia entry; Program for French Heritage Society; Reviews; Penn's Village Panel, 2013


Box 22 Folder 7 Poem cards, Photographs, Souvenir, Notes, Image of Rochelle's mother (Molly Adler Bass)



Box 23 Folder 1 Copyright Certificates, 1973-1999


Box 23 Folder 2 Reviews by Rochelle Owens on Maria Sabina; Toby Olson; Muriel Rukeyser; Susan Smith Nash


Box 23 Folder 2 Backwoods Broadsides "Luca-Discourse on Life and Death"


Box 23 Folder 2 Margins Symposium on Rochelle Owens, 1975


Box 23 Folder 2 Miscellaneous articles



Box 24 Folder 7 Three poem cards and one photograph card

Photograph by George Economou of Land Art created by Rochelle Owens; "Oklahoma Too" by Rochelle Owens, 1985; "How Much Paint Does The Painting Need" by Rochelle Owens, 1985; "How Much Paint Does The Painting Need" by Rochelle Owens, 1988